What is the slope of the line passing through $(-4,-8); (-2,-6)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-01-25T02:18:43

$1$

Slope $m$ of a line passing through two points $A(x_1,y_1)$ and $B(x_2,y_2)$ is given by

$m=(y_2-y_1)/(x_2-x_1)$

Here let $A=(-4,-8) and B=(-2,-6)$

$implies m=(-6-(-8))/(-2-(-4))=(-6+8)/(-2+4)=2/2=1$

$implies$ slope of the line passing through the given points is $1$ .

What is the slope of the line passing through (-4,-8); (-2,-6) (-4,-8); (-2,-6)?